SEO Essential Tools
1. Page Speed Insights
Page Speed Insights measures the performance of a page for mobile devices and desktop devices. The Page Speed Optimization score ranges from 0 to 100 points. A higher score is better and a score of 85 or above indicates that the page is performing well. The Page Speed score is based in Chrome User Experience report data which uses aggregate real user measurements to calculate how fast a webpage loads.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
2. Mobile-Friendly Test
This test will analyze a URL and report if the page has a mobile-friendly design.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
3. Global Market Finder
With Google Global Market Finder, you can find opportunities to reach over 2.9 billion customers around the globe. Automatically translate keywords into your customers’ language. See where customers are searching for your product, from anywhere in the world. Make the most out of your ad budget by comparing cost estimates across languages and locations.
https://translate.google.com/globalmarketfinder/g/index.html?locale=en
4. Google Trends
The Google Trends tool uses real-time search data to help you gauge consumer search behaviours over time.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore
5. Keyword Planner
A tool that provides keyword ideas and traffic estimates to help you find the most demanded keywords in your industry.
https://ads.google.com/aw/keywordplanner/
6. SimilarWeb
SimilarWeb provides Web Analytics services to help you collect, measure and analyse user engagement with websites or mobile apps.
https://www.similarweb.com/
7. SEMrush
An online SEM tool which helps you with keyword research, business intelligence and online competitor analysis.
https://www.semrush.com
8. Rank Checker
A free Firefox Rank Checker extension which allows you to easily monitor websites’ rankings in Google (international) and Bing search engines.
http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/
9. Google Analytics
Google Analytics is the most commonly used Web Analytics service offered by Google which tracks and reports website traffic. It provides detailed data about user engagement and traffic reports for websites or mobile apps.
https://www.google.com/analytics/
10. Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a free web service provided by Google for webmasters. It helps you monitor your website’s presence in Google’s search engine.
https://search.google.com/search-console/about
11. Majestic
One of the best link intelligence tools, Majestic helps you to monitor websites’ link history. Majestic provides detailed information and helps you understand how websites are linking to each other.
https://majestic.com/
12. Open Site Explorer
Open Site Explorer is a link analysis tool provided by Moz that closely mimics what Google or Bing’s linkscape looks like. You can use it to explore all web pages indexed by search engines and get a huge amount of information about your (or your competitor’s) website.
https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/
13. Keyword Tool
Keyword Tool is a free online keyword research instrument that uses Google Autocomplete to generate hundreds of relevant long-tail keywords.
https://keywordtool.io/
14. Ubersuggest
Ubersuggest is a free online keyword suggestion tool.
http://ubersuggest.org/
15. SpyFu – SEO tool
SpyFu exposes the search marketing secret formula of your most successful competitors. S
http://www.spyfu.com/
16. Copyscape
Copyscape helps you defend your site against the threats of online plagiarism. The free Copyscape service provides online copyright protection by allowing you to easily search for plagiarism and identify instances of content theft or duplicate content.
http://copyscape.com/
17. Not provided count
A tool that helps you track the level of “not provided” keywords. Not Provided Count uses live Google Analytics data from 60 different websites to track the growth of the “not provided” keywords and the drop of real keyword data.
http://www.notprovidedcount.com/
18. Google My Business
https://www.google.com/business/
19. Sh404 Joomla Plugin for SEO
sh404sef helps you improve your search engine rankings and get more traffic to your website. sh404SEF® is the most popular and longest developed Joomla SEO extension and it rewrites Joomla URLs to user and SEO-friendly format and provides a user friendly template for updating page titles & meta descriptions.
http://extensions.joomla.org/extension/sh404sef
20. WordPress Yoast plugin SEO
Yoast offers a free SEO plugin for WordPress which can help you easily manage your website’s SEO efforts.
Google Updates:
1. Google Webmaster Tools mobile-friendly update announcement
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2015/02/finding-more-mobile-friendly-search.html
2. Google Algorithm Change History
https://moz.com/google-algorithm-change
Content Guidelines:
1. Google Quality Rater Guidelines
https://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/assets/searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf
2. Introduction to Structured Data
Promote your content with structured data markup. .
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data
3. Schema Mark Up Vocabulary
https://schema.org/
4. Schema mark-up Testing Tool
https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/
Other Structured Data Validators:
http://linter.structured-data.org/
https://webmaster.yandex.com/tools/microtest/
https://www.bing.com/toolbox/markup-validator
5. Linked Data in HTML
RDFa is an extension in HTML5 that helps you markup things like People, Places, Events, Recipes and Reviews.
http://rdfa.info/
6. JSON-LD
https://json-ld.org/
7. Schema Generators
https://lxrmarketplace.com/structured-data-generator.html
https://kalicube.pro/schema-markup-generator-organization
https://technicalseo.com/seo-tools/schema-markup-generator/
https://webcode.tools/json-ld-generator
8. Social Media Validators
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
http://smo.knowem.com/
Page Speed Testing Tools
https://www.webpagetest.org/
https://gtmetrix.com/
https://www.dareboost.com/
https://performance.sucuri.net/
https://tools.keycdn.com/speed